CVE•Published 2026-04-09•Modified 2026-04-13•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-35639
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
OpenClaw before 2026.3.22 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the device.pair.approve method that allows an operator.pairing approver to approve pending device requests with broader operator scopes than the approver actually holds. Attackers can exploit insufficient scope validation to escalate privileges to operator.admin and achieve remote code execution on the Node infrastructure.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-09
Modified 2026-04-13
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-35639Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-35639Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-35639Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-35639GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-35639" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.